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Jian Yang

Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems

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1 Washington Park 1074

Newark, NJ 07102-1895

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1.

Opaque Selling to Strategic Buyers

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2025
Yuan Qu and Jian Yang
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Data and Systems Engineering and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Opaque Selling, Strategic Buyers, Rational Expectations, Inventory Management, Comparative Statics, Win-win Outcome

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Data-driven Inventory Control involving Fixed Setup Costs and Discrete Censored Demand

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 19 May 2024
Michael N. Katehakis, Ehsan Teymourian and Jian Yang
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Management Science & Information Systems, James Madison University - College of Business and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Inventory; Demand Censoring; Ambiguity; Regret; Fixed Setup Costs

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Simple Fixes that Accommodate Switching Costs in Multi-armed Bandits

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Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2024
Ehsan Teymourian and Jian Yang
James Madison University - College of Business and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Multi-armed Bandit, Switching Cost, Ambiguity, Regret Analysis

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Learning the Best Price and Ordering Policy under Fixed Costs and Ambiguous Demand

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
Jian Yang and Junmin (Jim) Shi
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems and New Jersey Institute of Technology - Martin Tuchman School of Management
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Joint Inventory-price Control; Fixed Setup Cost; Adaptive Policy; Regret Bound; Learning while Doing

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Optimal Timing of Raw-material Acquisition under Fluctuating Prices

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 26 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2025
Wei Cheng, Jianbin Li and Jian Yang
School of Management, Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Geometric Brownian Motion, Stopping Time, Snell's Envelope, Execution Boundaries, Discrete-time Approximation, Backward Induction

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The Weak Core, Partition-based Universal Stability, and their Risk Associations through a Partial Order

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2025
Jian Yang
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Coalitional Game, Weak Core, Partition, Stability, Comparative Statics, Risk Aversion

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Road to the Best (s,S,p) Policy in Joint Inventory-price Control Involving Demand Ambiguity

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2025
Shuhao Tang and Jian Yang
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers University and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Joint Inventory-price Control, Fixed Setup Cost, (sSp) Policy, Ambiguity, Adaptive Policy, Regret Analysis

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Dynamic Inventory-price Control during Opaque Selling of Horizontally-differentiated Products

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 May 2025 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2025
Yuan Qu and Jian Yang
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Data and Systems Engineering and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Opaque Selling, Replenishment Policy, Rationing Policy, Pricing Policy

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A Nonatomic Game Involving Incomplete Information and General Ambiguity Attitudes

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2025
Jian Yang
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Nonatomic Game, Incomplete Information, General Preference, Ambiguity Attitude, Equilibrium Notions, Finite-game Approximation JEL Code: C72, D81

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A Conjecture Related to the Traveling Salesman Problem

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Jian Yang
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Combinatorial Optimization Problem; Complexity; Traveling Salesman Problem

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An Infinitesimal-interval Approach to Markovian Coherent Risk Measures in Continuous Time

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2025
Jian Yang
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Markov Process, Coherent Risk Measure, Dual Presentation, Semi-derivative, Partition, Differential Equation, Cumulant Generating Function

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Offline Learning and Optimization for Multi-product Inventory Management with Stockout-based Substitution

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 09 Jun 2026
Yijie Zheng, Frank (Youhua) Chen, Carl Philip T. Hedenstierna and Jian Yang
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, City Univ. of Hong Kong - College of Business, Dept of Management Sciences, University of Liverpool and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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multi-product inventory, substitution, censored data, demand estimation

13.

Acquisition Management under Fluctuating Prices and Random Demands

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2026
Wei Cheng, Jianbin Li and Jian Yang
School of Management, Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Stochastic Control, Base-stock Policy, Mean Repulsion, Mean Reversion, Discrete-time Approximation, Monotone Trends, Geometric Brownian Motion

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The Seeming Conundrum Between Jobs Growth and GDP Shrinkage

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 18 Sep 2022
Jian Yang
Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Tails of Two Sides-Conditions Inspired by Thompson Sampling for Multi-armed Bandit that Lead to Further Understandings and Improvements

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Jun 2026
Shiyu Song, Huanwen Shen and Jian Yang
Nanjing University, Purdue University - Daniels School of Business and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems
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Multi-armed Bandit, Thompson Sampling, Two Tails, Gaussian-indexed Policies, Regret Analysis, Empirical Studies

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Tails of Two Sides-conditions Inspired by Thompson Sampling for Multi-armed Bandit that Lead to Further Understandings and Improvements

Posted: 20 May 2026
Shiyu Song, Houcai Shen and Jian Yang
Nanjing University, Nanjing University - School of Management and Engineering and Rutgers University, Business School, Department of Management Science and Information Systems

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Multi-armed Bandit, Thompson Sampling, Two Tails, Gaussian-indexed Policies, Regret Analysis, Empirical Studies